"The financial system of this country would never rest on a just and equitable basis until industry was relieved of its present intolerable burden and taxation levied on the value of land, a value that entirely arose from the presence of the people."

"The landlord may call the land his all the days of his life, and at his death bequeath it to his heirs. For a thousand years the owners of an estate may charge rent for it..." (p.55)

"I believe that no one has a moral right to land because he has bought it, and paid for it, any more than the slave-holder has a moral right to the man, woman or child he has bought and paid for; because no one can have a moral right to sell the land which belongs equally to all, or the man, woman or child whose persons, liberty and labour belong to themselves."